• Charles Masterson

    The Life And Ministry Of Charles Masterson

    It is with a feeling of pain that those words, "the late," are penned. It is, alas! too true. Charles Masterson is no more. Stay! that is not exactly correct. Charles Masterson is alive for evermore. The goodly tabernacle has been suddenly shaken down, but its fall has not ruined its late resident. Absent from the body, he is present…

  • Thomas Poock

    Sorrow And Salvation

    This blessed chapter is particularly memorable to my soul, the good Lord having applied the 3rd verse with such power to my almost distracted mind thirty-eight years ago, that I can never read, think, or preach from any part of it, without remembering that deliverance I then so visibly received from my Lord;—indeed, I find every sentence a sermon throughout…

  • Thomas Poock

    The Poetic Testimony Of Thomas Poock

    Dear friend in the gospel, you ask for a line,  The which I will send you as I can get time;  And this is the subject on which I shall dwell— To write of my Jesus, who sav'd me from hell. I often am led of my history to think; And while I remember, I shudder and shrink. My birth…

  • Thomas Poock

    The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Poock

    The late Mr. Thomas Poock was born at Brompton, near Chatham, Kent, on the 21st Feb., 1797. His early life was "full of striking incidents and marvelous activeness." Bereaved of his mother in early childhood, he became a poor, helpless, friendless outcast consequently was placed in a very trying position. An uncle, who lived many miles away, hearing of it,…